𝙻𝚘𝚗𝚐𝙼𝚊𝚌𝚃𝚘𝚙𝚙𝚎𝚍𝚄𝚙 @ Longmactoppedup @aussie.zone

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I read a lot of fiction books in my own time when I was in primary school for the enjoyment of it.

When I got to highschool I hated English so much. Analyse what the author's theme was in this bla bla fuck off! Sucked the joy out of reading. Didn't give me any useful skills for the career path I was heading in to either.

There needs to be an academic English subject for people who just need it to get in to STEM courses.

Took some years after high school to get back in to it, but I do occasionally read fiction when I have time these days.

I've read they are drinking less and taking less recreational drugs and having less sex than previous generations.

I'm so glad that capturing everything with photos / videos and uploading to socials wasn't a thing in the early 2000s when I was going to clubs and electronic music festivals. Reach for the lasers safe as fuck.

They really came out of the wood work when the covid vaccines were released. Friends and acquaintances who were there munching down e's of unknown origin back in early 2000s suddenly had a different stance about putting something "unknown" in them.

Is grape the default anywhere other than the USA? I don't think I've ever seen grape jam (jelly) for sale in Australia.

Growing up the default was always strawberry.

I only eat bread rarely now. But if I was doing this it would be sour dough, Pics peanut butter and Schwartau Extra sour cherry jam.

In addition to what slazer said, in Australia once you earn over a certain amount you get hit with an extra tax if you don't take out private health. The conservative coalition brought that in a long time ago because their donor mates in private health asked them to ruin our public health care and this was their first step towards that.

I still have private cover as it seems like the least bad option even though it pisses me off. I guess that's the point.

The word yacht or the way it is pronounced.

Pears said the energy rating stickers “have a lot of credibility with people” and is “relied upon” by consumers.

Really?

I've never really bothered much with appliance ratings.

Any time I see star ratings on anything that the govt has been involved with I automatically assume it's a load of bullshit that was guided by industry with their wants put well ahead of consumer needs. At best star ratings just dumb down actual metrics.

See:

The absolute joke that is food rating stars.

Home energy star ratings. Why not just state use the passivhouse standard? Or just state energy used and air tightness in changes per hour etc.

Vehicle star ratings where fucking human crusher 4wds still somehow gets 5 stars for vulnerable road user protection because it has some sensors in it.

Pipe dream:

Tax income generated from accumulated wealth the same as income generated from actual work. I.e. a rate somewhere in between the two. No more CGT discounts.

End negative gearing for existing structures.

No more tax breaks for commercial vehicles

Curtail corporations from off shoring profits to tax havens.

Tax on exported gas

UBI

Good to see us considering something that's in favour of digital rights for once.

Also as an android (Graphene) user it is good to get this precedent in place because Google is steadily turning android in to an awful walled garden too.

Infinite scroll

Enshitification of search results when shopping

Planned obsolescence

If those are the biggest behavioural issues the author is worried about then I would question if she has ever even caught public transport.

Mass consumption of "low fat" (high sugar) processed food like products?

As a fan of wagons, yes it sucks that there are so few left to buy.

The European manufactures still sell wagons here. But $$$

There is also still the WRX wagon.

Vehicles with a front height that's above the average adults waist height should be given automatic zero stars for vulnerable road user protection rating.

Anything with a zero rating should be restricted from being driven while on probation. They should also attract a special extra registration fee.

The fact that at the moment some high fronted child crushers can get 5 stars is a damming indictment of ANCAP.

The sky propaganda said this after the last election, the libs put Dutton as leader and did just that. Historic loss for them.

Again they are saying it now. I look forward to the libs following the advice more and getting reduced to a minor party.

I used to think that a majority labor govt should have fixing media concentration as a top priority.

I think they should still do it, but it's becoming less of an top priority issue these days.

Murdoch and Packer/Gina propaganda failed this time and last.

I think that the billionaires have learnt it's easy to negotiate in the background with labor to get their reforms through as far as cutting red and green tape goes.

Bolt is just salty because he built his whole fake media persona on culture war outrage. The worst thing that could happen to him is happening, that is him and the rest of the sky talking heads are losing audience share and fading in to irrelevance.

We have pretty much the same policies as the USA when it comes to digital rights, including border force being able to search your devices upon entry.

I tried this then it wanted me to do a verification video of my face.

We have:

• Preferential voting.
• Proportional representation (at least in the lower house)
• Independent organisation that sets seat boundaries.
• compulsory voting
• no electoral college system

Our system is completely different to the USA. Granted our media landscape is still just as fucked as theirs.

First preferences also result in funding going to that party provided it meets a minimum threshold. Putting others ahead of the major parties sends them a message to do better. It has also resulted in a number of seats being held by independents.

Unless you actually live in the seat the party leader is in, you are not voting for that party leader / giant douche / turd sandwich.